Actors:
Alan Cumming is 58 (“Cabaret,” “Emma,” “GoldenEye,” the “Spy Kids” trilogy, “Son of the Mask,” “The Good Wife”)
James Cromwell is 83 (“Babe,” “A. Confidential,” “The Green Mile,” “Space Cowboys,” “W.,” The Artist,” “Six Feet Under,” “24,” “American Horror Story: Asylum”)
Bridget Fonda is 59 (“Scandal,” “You Can't Hurry Love,” “The Godfather Part III,” “Single White Female,” “Singles,” “Rough Magic,” “Jackie Brown”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman since 2003 – and has essentially been retired from acting since then. But it’s assumed that her retirement has less to do with the marriage, and more to do with the serious car crash in February 2003 – as we know she at least suffered a vertebral fracture.)
Patton Oswalt is 54 (“United States of Tara,” “The King of Queens,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”) (FAST FACT: He’s the narrator on ABC’s “The Goldbergs”)
Rosamund Pike is 44 (“The Libertine,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Doom,” “Fracture,” “Gone Girl”)
Josh Randall is 51 (“Ed,” “Scrubs,” “Courting Alex,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Ten Days In The Valley”)
Mimi Rogers is 67 (“Gung Ho,” “The X-Files,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Wilfred,” “Mad Men”) (FAST FACT: She was Tom Cruise’s first wife – they were married from 1982 – 1990 and she’s the person who introduced him to Scientology. The REAL irony? He may still be a true blue Scientologist, but she’s reportedly left the church behind.)
The late Troy Donahue (1936-2001)…he would have been 87 (“A Summer Place,” “Surfside 6”)
The late Donna Reed (1921-1986) (“It’s a Wonderful Life,” “The Donna Reed Show,” “From Here to Eternity,” “Dallas”)
Musicians:
Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers is 66
New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert is 62
Geils Band’s Seth Justman is 72
James guitarist Michael Kulas is 54
Tracy Lawrence is 55
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is 79
Faith No More singer Mike Patton is 55
Nedra Talley of The Ronettes is 77
Cowboy Junkies singer Margo Timmins is 62
Tricky is 55
Plus:
NFL star and sports commentator Cris Collinsworth is 64
Model and celeb offspring Daisy Lowe is 34 (She’s the daughter of Pearl Lowe and Gavin Rossdale – neither she nor Gavin knew that he was her father until 2004. It was a shock to his then-wife, Gwen Stefani, as well)
TV personality Keith Olbermann is 64
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is 68 (He was nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist)
The late author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) (Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, he is better known by his pen name. His most famous writings are “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,” its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass,” which includes the poem “Jabberwocky,” and the poem, “The Hunting of the Snark.”
The late composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.)